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What is a dream? What part does it play in everyday life? Although many people are curious about their dreams, the subject tends to be given low priority in our society apart from professionals who struggle to understand their psychic meaning. However, symbolic awareness has increased in the last decades and, with an increase in dream seminars and lectures and more people entering therapy, there is a greater interest in unconscious material.
Dr Montague Ullman is a distinguished New York psychoanalyst and Clinical Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Like S.H. Foulkes, the founder of British group analysis, his varied background includes service in the army during World War II. Research interests led him to explore the neurophysiological, clinical and social aspects of dreaming. He is the author and coauthor of many books on this topic and this current one is to help confirm ‘oneirophiles’ (lovers of dreams!) as well as encouraging new recruits. This book, a product of over 20 years' research and practice, is a reference manual with specialized chapters to assist those who are already interested and involved in leading dream groups. He spent many years working out a technique which is informative, original and interesting. He is well known in the US and Scandinavia where he has conducted master classes in this field. Certainly one or other of his disciples will always be found at the annual convention of the American Group Psychotherapists.
Ullman originally devised his technique as a strategy in training psychoanalysts. However, it has proved to be of interest to many non-professionals. His method is designed for groups and is at the same time intensely personal to the individual dreamer, but, in the hands of a skilled practitioner, does not encroach on the individual's integrity. Thus, whilst it emphasizes a group approach, it can equally be utilized by an individual choosing to work on his/her own. The book takes us in depth into